selected scholarly activity
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conferences
- A Consensus Definition of Advance Care Planning from a Multidisciplinary Delphi Panel. Journal of The American Geriatrics Society. S117-S117. 2017
- Measuring Advance Care Planning: Optimizing the Advance Care Planning Engagement Survey. Journal of The American Geriatrics Society. S117-S117. 2017
- Prioritizing Outcomes for Advance Care Planning Research: Consensus from a Multidisciplinary Delphi Panel. Journal of The American Geriatrics Society. S118-S118. 2017
- Defining Advance Care Planning for Adults: A Consensus Definition from a Multidisciplinary Delphi Panel (S740). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 431-432. 2017
- Measuring Advance Care Planning: Optimizing the Advance Care Planning Engagement Survey (TH307C). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 318-318. 2017
- Prioritizing Outcomes for Advance Care Planning Research: Consensus from a Multidisciplinary, International Delphi Panel (TH307A). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 316-317. 2017
- F05-A Improving Communication about Goals of Care with Hospitalized Patients Who Have Serious Illness: A Canadian, Multi-Centre Program of Research. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. e49-e50. 2016
- Knowledge and Practices of Palliative Care by French Physiotherapists. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. E79-E79. 2016
- Learn to Ask: Using a Flipped Classroom Model with Objective Generation to Teach Residents Goals of Care Discussions Using Simulation. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. E79-E79. 2016
- P037 Acceptability and Potential Utility of a Novel Values Clarification Tool to Enable Person-Centred Conversations About Goals of Care. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. e75-e75. 2016
- P043 Effect of a Video Decision Aid on Clinical Decision-Making About Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. e77-e77. 2016
- RF3-B Barriers and Enablers to Advance Care Planning with Patients in Primary Care: A Survey of Clinicians. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. e47-e47. 2016
- Patient Preferences for Physicians' End-of-Life Communication Behaviors. Journal of Palliative Care. 218-218. 2014
- Advance Care Planning and the ACCEPT Study: How Are We Doing and How Can We Improve?. Journal of Palliative Care. 194-194. 2012
- Early serial measurements of myeloperoxidase, a sensitive cardiac troponin I and high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T in patients presenting within 6hours of chest pain onset. Clinical Biochemistry. 1111-1111. 2012
- Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for the diagnosis of recurrent cancer (PETREC): A multicenter, prospective cohort study.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2012
- Comparison of angiogenic growth factors assays using a research mulitplex platform versus clinical platforms in patients with chest pain. Clinical Biochemistry. 1181-1182. 2011
- Comparison of cytokine biomarker performance across immunoassay platforms. Clinical Biochemistry. 1179-1179. 2011
- Impact of Change in High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol on Cardiovascular Disease Morbidity and Mortality: Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis. Circulation. 2008
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journal articles
- Short Graphic Values History Tool for decision making during serious illness. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care. 12:e777-e784. 2022
- Patient-family agreement on values and preferences for life-sustaining treatment: results of a multicentre observational study. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care. 9:e20-e20. 2019
- Patterns of Care During the Terminal Hospital Admission for Patients With Advanced Heart Failure: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 34:1215-1218. 2018
- Perceived Barriers to Goals of Care Discussions With Patients With Advanced Cancer and Their Families in the Ambulatory Setting. Journal of Palliative Care. 33:125-142. 2018
- Older patient engagement in advance care planning in Canadian primary care practices: Results of a multisite survey.. Canadian Family Physician. 64:371-377. 2018
- Barriers to and enablers of advance care planning with patients in primary care: survey of health care providers. Canadian Family Physician. 64:e190-198. 2018
- Canadian hospital nurses' roles in communication and decision-making about goals of care: An interpretive description of critical incidents. Applied Nursing Research. 40:26-33. 2018
- Outcomes That Define Successful Advance Care Planning: A Delphi Panel Consensus. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 55:245-255.e8. 2018
- Development and Psychometric Properties of a Survey to Assess Barriers to Implementing Advance Care Planning in Primary Care. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 55:12-21. 2018
- Comparative effectiveness of antiarrhythmics for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. Resuscitation. 121:90-97. 2017
- Barriers to Goals of Care Discussions With Patients Who Have Advanced Heart Failure: Results of a Multicenter Survey of Hospital-Based Cardiology Clinicians. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 23:786-793. 2017
- Broadening End-of-Life Comfort to Improve Palliative Care Practices in Long Term Care. Canadian Journal on Aging. 36:306-317. 2017
- Discordance between patients' stated values and treatment preferences for end-of-life care: results of a multicentre survey. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care. 7:292-299. 2017
- Validation of quality indicators for end-of-life communication: results of a multicentre survey. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 189:E980-E989. 2017
- Defining Advance Care Planning for Adults: A Consensus Definition From a Multidisciplinary Delphi Panel. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 53:821-832.e1. 2017
- Measuring Advance Care Planning: Optimizing the Advance Care Planning Engagement Survey. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 53:669-681.e8. 2017
- Barriers and facilitators for goals of care discussions between residents and hospitalised patients. Postgraduate Medical Journal. 93:127-132. 2017
- Premature discontinuation of pediatric randomized controlled trials: a retrospective cohort study. Journal of Pediatrics. 184:209-214. 2017
- Barriers to goals of care discussions with hospitalized patients with advanced heart failure: feasibility and performance of a novel questionnaire. ESC heart failure. 3:245-252. 2016
- Communication tools for end-of-life decision-making in the intensive care unit: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Critical Care. 20:97. 2016
- Educational interventions to train healthcare professionals in end-of-life communication: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Medical Education. 16:131. 2016
- Process mapping evaluation of medication reconciliation in academic teaching hospitals: a critical step in quality improvement. BMJ Open. 6:e013663-e013663. 2016
- The determinants of home and nursing home death: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Palliative Care. 15:8. 2016
- The prevalence of medical error related to end-of-life communication in Canadian hospitals: results of a multicentre observational study. BMJ Quality and Safety. 25:671-679. 2016
- ‘Talk to me’: a mixed methods study on preferred physician behaviours during end‐of‐life communication from the patient perspective. Health Expectations. 19:883-896. 2016
- Measuring engagement in advance care planning: a cross-sectional multicentre feasibility study. BMJ Open. 6:e010375-e010375. 2016
- Factors influencing communication and decision-making about life-sustaining technology during serious illness: a qualitative study. BMJ Open. 6:e010451-e010451. 2016
- Agreements between industry and academia on publication rights: A retrospective study of protocols and publications of randomized clinical trials. PLoS Medicine. 13:e1002046-e1002046. 2016
- An analysis of protocols and publications suggested that most discontinuations of clinical trials were not based on preplanned interim analyses or stopping rules. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 69:152-160. 2016
- Communication Tools for End-of-Life Decision-Making in Ambulatory Care Settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE. 11:e0150671-e0150671. 2016
- Correction to: Planning and reporting of quality-of-life outcomes in cancer trials. Annals of Oncology. 27:209-209. 2016
- Meta-analysis of antibiotics versus appendicectomy for non-perforated acute appendicitis. British Journal of Surgery. 103:656-667. 2016
- Premature discontinuation of randomized trials in critical and emergency care: a retrospective cohort study. Critical Care Medicine. 44:130-137. 2016
- Strategies for effective goals of care discussions and decision-making: perspectives from a multi-centre survey of Canadian hospital-based healthcare providers. BMC Palliative Care. 14:38. 2015
- Virtual colonoscopy, optical colonoscopy, or fecal occult blood testing for colorectal cancer screening: results of a pilot randomized controlled trial. Trials. 16:296. 2015
- Readiness of hospital-based internists to embrace and discuss high-value care with patients and family members: a single-centre cross-sectional survey study. CMAJ open. 3:E382-E386. 2015
- Working to Shift Clinician Perceptions—Reply. JAMA Internal Medicine. 175:1578-1578. 2015
- Improving End-of-Life Communication and Decision Making: The Development of a Conceptual Framework and Quality Indicators. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 49:1070-1080. 2015
- Video decision aids to assist with advance care planning: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 5:e007491-e007491. 2015
- 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography-computed tomography to diagnose recurrent cancer. British Journal of Cancer. 112:1737-1743. 2015
- Barriers to Goals of Care Discussions With Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients and Their Families. JAMA Internal Medicine. 175:549-549. 2015
- Nonbeneficial Treatment Canada. Critical Care Medicine. 43:270-281. 2015
- Completion and publication rates of randomized controlled trials in surgery: an empirical study. Annals of Surgery. 262:68-73. 2015
- Planning and reporting of quality-of-life outcomes in cancer trials. Annals of Oncology. 26:1966-1973. 2015
- What really matters in end-of-life discussions? Perspectives of patients in hospital with serious illness and their families. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 186:E679-E687. 2014
- ‘Conditional candour’ and ‘knowing me’: an interpretive description study on patient preferences for physician behaviours during end-of-life communication. BMJ Open. 4:e005653-e005653. 2014
- Just ask: discussing goals of care with patients in hospital with serious illness. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 186:425-432. 2014
- Patient Engagement and Shared Decision-Making. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 29:562-562. 2014
- Spine surgeons’ requirements for imaging at the time of referral: a survey of Canadian spine surgeons. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 57:E25-E30. 2014
- Activity-Based Funding of Hospitals and Its Impact on Mortality, Readmission, Discharge Destination, Severity of Illness, and Volume of Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE. 9:e109975-e109975. 2014
- Prevalence, characteristics, and publication of discontinued randomized trials. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 311:1045-1052. 2014
- Response to comment on: Dysregulated expression of T cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain 3 is associated with the disease severity and the outcome of patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage. Clinical Biochemistry. 47:146-146. 2014
- Clinical Utility of 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in the Staging of Patients with Potentially Resectable Esophageal Cancer. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 8:1563-1569. 2013
- Randomized controlled trial comparing telephone and mail follow-up for recruitment of participants into a clinical trial of colorectal cancer screening. Trials. 14:40. 2013
- Active Surveillance, Radiofrequency Ablation, or Cryoablation for the Nonsurgical Management of a Small Renal Mass: A Cost-Utility Analysis. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 20:3675-3684. 2013
- Ninety-Minute vs 3-h Performance of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Assays for Predicting Hospitalization for Acute Coronary Syndrome. Clinical Chemistry. 59:1407-1410. 2013
- Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: Topological Reorganization of the Default-Mode Network. Radiology. 268:501-514. 2013
- Failure to Engage Hospitalized Elderly Patients and Their Families in Advance Care Planning. JAMA Internal Medicine. 173:778-778. 2013
- Temporal Trends in the Utilization of Echocardiography in Ontario, 2001 to 2009. JACC Cardiovascular Imaging. 6:515-522. 2013
- Head CT for Nontrauma Patients in the Emergency Department: Clinical Predictors of Abnormal Findings. Radiology. 266:783-790. 2013
- Outcomes and Care of Patients With Acute Heart Failure Syndromes and Cardiac Troponin Elevation. Circulation. Heart Failure. 6:193-202. 2013
- Features of effective computerised clinical decision support systems: meta-regression of 162 randomised trials. The BMJ. 346:f657-f657. 2013
- Patterns of Care After Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Spine in Primary Care. Spine. 38:51-59. 2013
- Randomized trials published in higher vs. lower impact journals differ in design, conduct, and analysis. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 66:286-295. 2013
- How to Use a Noninferiority Trial. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 308:2605-2605. 2012
- Quality of discharge summaries prepared by first year internal medicine residents. BMC Medical Education. 12:77. 2012
- Uncertainties in baseline risk estimates and confidence in treatment effects. The BMJ. 345:e7401-e7401. 2012
- Antithrombotic Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation. Chest. 141:e531S-e575S. 2012
- Credibility of claims of subgroup effects in randomised controlled trials: systematic review. The BMJ. 344:e1553-e1553. 2012
- Formatting modifications in GRADE evidence profiles improved guideline panelists comprehension and accessibility to information. A randomized trial. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 65:748-755. 2012
- Learning from failure-rationale and design for a study about discontinuation of randomized trials (DISCO study). BMC Medical Research Methodology. 12:131-131. 2012
- Potential impact on estimated treatment effects of information lost to follow-up in randomised controlled trials (LOST-IT): systematic review. The BMJ. 344:e2809-e2809. 2012
- Specific instructions for estimating unclearly reported blinding status in randomized trials were reliable and valid. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 65:262-267. 2012
- Can computerized clinical decision support systems improve practitioners' diagnostic test ordering behavior? A decision-maker-researcher partnership systematic review. Implementation Science. 6:88. 2011
- Multiplex protein assay performance/evaluation and the requirement for precision and correlation to clinical assays. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine. 49:1915-1918. 2011
- Patterns of Care and Outcomes After Computed Tomography Scans for Headache. American Journal of Medicine. 124:58-63.e1. 2011
- The influence of study characteristics on reporting of subgroup analyses in randomised controlled trials: systematic review. The BMJ. 342:d1569-d1569. 2011
- Extracardiac Findings in Cardiac Computed Tomographic Angiography in Patients at Low to Intermediate Risk for Coronary Artery Disease. Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal. 61:286-290. 2010
- Improved Outcomes With Early Collaborative Care of Ambulatory Heart Failure Patients Discharged From the Emergency Department. Circulation. 122:1806-1814. 2010
- Major Radiodiagnostic Imaging in Pregnancy and the Risk of Childhood Malignancy: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Ontario. PLoS Medicine. 7:e1000337-e1000337. 2010
- Relationship between spinal magnetic resonance imaging findings and candidacy for spinal surgery.. Canadian Family Physician. 56:e323-e330. 2010
- Proliferation of Prenatal Ultrasonography. Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey. 65:418-419. 2010
- Non-adherence to Recommendations for Further Testing after Outpatient CT and MRI. American Journal of Medicine. 123:557.e1-557.e8. 2010
- Identification of myocardial injury in the emergency setting. Clinical Biochemistry. 43:539-544. 2010
- Stopping Randomized Trials Early for Benefit and Estimation of Treatment Effects<subtitle>Systematic Review and Meta-regression Analysis</subtitle>. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 303:1180-1180. 2010
- The authors respond. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 182:482-482. 2010
- Assessment of Tumor Recurrence in Patients With Colorectal Cancer and Elevated Carcinoembryonic Antigen Level: FDG PET/CT Versus Contrast-Enhanced 64-MDCT of the Chest and Abdomen. American Journal of Roentgenology. 194:766-771. 2010
- Proliferation of prenatal ultrasonography. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 182:143-151. 2010
- ICES Report: Appropriateness: The Next Frontier in the Quest for Better Access to CT and MRI. Healthcare Quarterly. 12:25-27. 2009
- Attitudes of Family Physicians, Specialists and Radiologists about the Use of Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Ontario. Healthcare Policy. 5:54-65. 2009
- Association between change in high density lipoprotein cholesterol and cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality: systematic review and meta-regression analysis. The BMJ. 338:b92-b92. 2009
- LOST to follow-up Information in Trials (LOST-IT): a protocol on the potential impact. Trials. 10:40-40. 2009
- Stopping randomized trials early for benefit: a protocol of the Study Of Trial Policy Of Interim Truncation-2 (STOPIT-2). Trials. 10:49-49. 2009
- Subgroup Analysis of Trials Is Rarely Easy (SATIRE): a study protocol for a systematic review to characterize the analysis, reporting, and claim of subgroup effects in randomized trials. Trials. 10:101-101. 2009
- Impact of picture archiving communication systems on rates of duplicate imaging: a before-after study. BMC Health Services Research. 8:234. 2008
- An early invasive strategy versus ischemia-guided management after fibrinolytic therapy for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: A meta-analysis of contemporary randomized controlled trials. American Heart Journal. 156:564-572.e2. 2008
- Indications for and results of outpatient computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in Ontario.. Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal. 59:135-143. 2008
- Life expectancy after an index hospitalization for patients with heart failure: A population-based study. American Heart Journal. 155:324-331. 2008
- Letter to the Editor. American Heart Journal. 154:e29-e29. 2007
- Life expectancy gains and cost-effectiveness of implantable cardioverter/defibrillators for the primary prevention of sudden cardiac death in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. American Heart Journal. 154:899-907. 2007
- Relation between cardiac troponin I and mortality in acute decompensated heart failure. American Heart Journal. 153:462-470. 2007
- Regional Differences in Process of Care and Outcomes for Older Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients in the United States and Ontario, Canada. Circulation. 115:196-203. 2007
- Rescue Angioplasty or Repeat Fibrinolysis After Failed Fibrinolytic Therapy for ST-Segment Myocardial Infarction. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 49:422-430. 2007
- Appropriateness of Spironolactone Prescribing in Heart Failure Patients: A Population-Based Study. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 12:205-210. 2006